Letter from Paris April 2017 from Margo Berdeshevsky DARK DAWN THOUGHTS WITH POETRY FOR SUSTENANCE STILL APRIL A grackle fallen on hard sand. One eye on a hunger, singing off-key…
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In the Belly of Words By Durs Grünbein An Essay in Honor of Aleš Steger A few days ago, I was surprised by a news report. In the article,…
北京来信 2：北漂诗人和企业家诗人 Letter from Beijing 2: Chinese poets, drifters and entrepreneurs Introduced and translated by Ming Di, a Chinese poet living between Beijing and California, editor of New Cathay –Contemporary…
‘A Dark and Coming Thing’: Badmind in Caribbean Literature By Vladimir Lucien It was Lorna Goodison’s latest book that first made me aware of our canonical Caribbean writers, in older…
Letter from Iraq: Literature between Exile and Detachment By Kusay A Askar When speaking about the Arabic literature of Iraq, it is important to envision it as divided into…
Letter from Beijing: New Poets and New Trends in China 北京来信：中国新诗人新诗风（一） From Ming Di Chinese New Poetry started as a literary revolution a hundred years ago influenced by the…
Modernism in the Days of Civil War by Saleh Razzouk In conversation and with consent from the author, this letter has been edited by Jahleh Ghanbari. Aleppo was once…
Aleppo Between Past and Present : Saleh Razzouk 1. After 2013: After 2013 the city of Aleppo entered a a mine field. Today, no one can move or go around the city without complications….
Letter FROM PARIS in November, 2016 FROM MARGO BERDESHEVSKY After… After Fear, the friend says flat voiced as the hollows in collected bones fear, silent as a mouth empty…
“I do not like you to waste your time on me.” Just yesterday an article was posted on the ABC.net website with the headline: “Syria conflict: World ‘turning a…